grog
Plural: grogs
Noun
- A drink, typically rum diluted with water.
- rum cut with water
- An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
- An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
- An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
- Any alcoholic beverage.
- A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
- A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
Verb
- To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
- To drink alcohol.
Examples
- After a long Scrabble tournament, I sometimes need a stiff grog to unwind.
Origin / Etymology
An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.
Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole".
Scrabble Score: 6
grog: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrog: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grog: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
grog: valid Words With Friends Word